Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 18 January 1895 — Page 4

DR. HOLMES.

"Good Dr. Holmes is dwwl," Thu3 all the people stud.

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I in my heart alone, Smiled at the white pravestone, Smiled at the tlung they said. .:

Dead! That generous heart? Dead! That genial art? si Open that nearby book. Into its pages look. Of i:n 'tis the greater part.

There we may hear him speak In tiie passing Imur «nd week .•-.*.••• Si'i! lv.m in yonder p:'ge LrijJit, in the future .ige. He i« there for ail who seek.

Gone! That attuning mirth? Gone! That enriching worth? Nay. To such souls is given, That, though they bloom in heaven, They eannot fade from earth. -Louiso Morgan Sill in New York Run.

JARLEY.

Jarlcy possessed tho riomestio virtues t-1 tho egotistical degree. Ho wearied his friends with his self laudations, bored them by cataloguing tho delights of a homo life and angered them by parading the fact that ho was a genuine "stay at homer. Even his wife took him to task at times because of his obstinacy in living up to his high keyed pretensions, for he vowed that when he put on his slippers and smoking jacket no earthly power could make him leave tho house. It was a great event in her monotonous life when he deigned to make a call, and her nervous system •was thrown from its balance for a moment when he took her to tho theater.

He seldom varied his programme. He sat down to dinner at 0:30 o'clock and then brought out his rusty red slippers, donned his well worn smoking jacket and read the papers until bedtime. Each year of his married life seemed to fasten •the habit to him moro tirmlv, and tho tenth anniversary of his wedding day found hir.i a slave to his home conceit. In all other respects Jarlcy was a lino fellow, popular with his business friends, extremely affectionate and kind to his •wife and children and a good citizen. Many times Iris down town acquaintances had un ed him to join this and that lodge, council or chapter of some secret society, but ho checked further solicitation by ostentatiously announcing that he had no use for clubs or societies that he had a little club of his own at home which took up all his spare time, and that his family and domestic comforts were all ho needed in the way of life and amusement.

Hows riding down town in a car one morning when a friend in the life insurance way began talking business to Mm. With that enthusiasm and earnestness which are characteristic of a successful life insurance agent he secured Jarley's interested attention, and after giving him a pocketful of circulars, estimates and other advertising literature left him at the corner, satisfied that he -would have Jarley's policy before the month was out. At lunch Jarley confided to his office companion that he had half a mind to take out a policy in the Double Cross Life Insurance company. "What's that?" asked his friend. "You want somo life insurance? How much do you want, ],00n? Why don't you como into tho Triple Plated League of Good Fellows? It's a mutual relief and aid association and carries a life insurance of £:3,0()0, and it will not cost you one-third as much as is charged by the cheapest life insurance company in existence. Just think, only 87 cents for each assessment, and last year thero were but 80 assessments. Beat that if you can Over 500,000 members in tho

United States." "No," said Jarley, "I don't want to join a society. I am so much of a stay at home that I do not feel that"—

You won't have to go to lodge meetings," interrupted his friend. "All you will have to do is to fill out this application. I will see that you go through tho committee all right. Then you will liavo to bo initiated, and after that, so long as you pay your assessments and duos, you needn't go near the lodgerooms. Then when you die tho boys will 6ee that you are buried in good shapo, and your widow will get $3,000.

Jarley thought of the Triple Plate league all of that afternoon. At night ho looked over tho life insurance estimates, compared them with the estimates given to him by his business friend and next morning told the latter ttyat he would fill out an application.

His friend was as good as his word. Jarley went through the examination committee without a jar, and ono morning he received a polite letter tolling him that his application had been duly recoived, and that if ho would present himself on the following Tuesday he would bo initiated. Mrs. Jarley was greatly surprised when her husband hurried through his dinner that Tuesday evening and without tolling her where ho was going put on his best clothes and left tho houso.

Jarley met his friend in tho corner drug store under tho lodgeroom of tho Triple Platers with some misgivings. Ho was densely ignorant of tho first principles of a secret society, and his knowledge of initiations was limited to reading "riding tho goat" jokes and accounts of college hazings. In tho drug store he was introduced to other Triple Platers and was warmly welcomed. Under the benign influence of friendly, jovial good fellowship his nervousness wore off, and he ascended tho stairs to enter upon tho ordeal with considorablo nonchalance.

To his surprise ho found that the inltation ceromonies were dignified and solemn. A great deal was said of philanthropy, friendship and loyalty, and ho felt as though ho w*ere being received into church. Then ho was given tho passwords and grip and soon after was the center of a crowd of men, receiving congratulations and slaps on the back. He passed a delightful evening. Music, cigars and well told stories followed one another rapidly, and it was after midnight when he reached his homo and his •worried wifo. A few days later ho placed in his buttonhole the figured

button of the Triplo Platers and practiced the grip with his friend until he had it perfect.

Jarley for the second time in his married life broke his stay at home rule by going to the lodge tho next Tuesday evening, and the week after found him there again. The pleasant evenings with the Triplo Platers and the novelty of it all turned ins attention to the dull life I led by his wife, and he took her to the theater.

Soon after the Triple Platers held an open lodge for the wives and iiK-nds of tho members. Jarley bought Mrs. Jarley a dress for the occasion, and tho breath nearly left the good woman when she found*tl»at he had ordered a carriage.

The friend who had induced him to join the society had not painted its beneiits too gaudily, tor a member of Jarley's lodge died, and Jarley was appointed ono of the pallbearers and was one of the committee to take a check for §3,000 to tho widow. Tho assessments wero not numerous, and Jarley figured that ho was carrying a life insurance of $3,000 for about §15 a thousand. Ho also wore his Triple Plate button, and one week when he was sent out of the city on business ho attended a lodge meeting in tho country town and mado somo valuable business acquaintances.

Jarley had been a Triple Plater for six months, when he was approached by a member of his church with a proposition to join tho B. of Q. T. X., a secret mutual accident and sick benefit association. "You say that you area Triple Plater," said the church member. "Your lodge meets Tuesday evenings. That's all right. Ours meets Thursdays. The Triple Platers have no accident and sick benefits. Twenty-five dollars a week if you are sick or hurt and tho doctor paid by the B. of Q. T. X. You had better come in. It won't cost over §25 a year."

In his methodical, businesslike way Jarley figured it out, and a few weeks later he was initiated into tho B. of Q. T.

X.

He placed the gold button of tho

B. of Q. T. X. on the lapel of his vest and felt that his family was well provided for

Feeling that ho ought to encourage that which was of so much benefit to himself, he brought in numerous members to both associations and subscribed for the organs of both orders. He was looked upon as a valuable man by both societies and in a short time was elected outer guard of tho Triplo Platers and inner guard of the B. of Q. T. X.

Soon after his election he was invited to join an order which was composed entirely of men in his line of business, tho Benevolent and Supreme Order of the Princes of tho Seven Sleepers.

This met on Saturday night, and the same enthusiasm which he had displayed in koepmg up his self acquired reputation as a great home body led him to assume a leading part in tho Seven Sleepers. He was elected secretary of the association and soon after was elected warder in tho Triplo Platers and high counselor in the B. of Q. T. X. Three evenings a week were taken up by the three societies, and his front parlor became a committee room. Mrs. Jarley rather liked tho change. The Triple Platers, B. of Q. T. X. 's and Seven Sleepers wero pleasant men, and her homo lifo had a variety and liveliness which contrasted most pleasantly writh the ten years of monotony.

Jarley was now a full fledged secret society man. Ho joined tho American Order of tho Kickapoos, tho High and Mighty Knights of tlio Supremo Council of the Eclipse, the Brethren of tho Order of the Lost Pleiades, tho Sons of Neptune and tho Baronial Order of tho Ancients. Ho was elected to office in each ono of tho associations, and when he was not at, lodge meetings ho was poring over books and accounts, addressing postal cards, attending committee meetings, making out programmes for open meetings, examining applications and practicing grips.

He attended two lodges on ono evening sometimes, and his multitudinous responsibilities, his numerous memberships and his lodge acquaintances brought about a confusion of grips, passwords and rituals which caused him to introduce Triple Plate procedures in tho lodge of tho Seven Sleopers and give tho Kickapoo grip to the worshipful grand master of the Sons of Neptune when he was up for the ninety-ninth degree. Mrs. Jarley never saw him except for breakfast and a hasty dinner. Jarley was so much occupied with his cumulative duties that he had no time to take her to open lodges, but he quieted his conscienco by telling her that if ho was brought home with a broken leg he would receivo $200 a week as accident benefits, if he were taken with typhoid fever his sick benefits would pay him §100 a week, and when he died she would receive $20,000.

Every other day assessment notices came from one or the other of his societies, and he gave up smoking, walked to and from his office and bought but two suits of clothes a year to savo the money with which to meet his assessments. The drain grew too heavy at length, and he took a cheaper house and cut the servant girl's wages. Ho sometimes wished that ho would break his leg in order to get back somo of the money he had put into accident benefits. His coat and vest were spangled with secret society badges, crosses and buttons, and ho wore throe society watch charms on his chain.

The walls of his sitting room and parlor were almost covered with sheepskin certificates of membership and photographs of Jarlcy as worshipful grand master, inner guard, outer guard, high potentate, sublime protector and as a score of other officers in tho various lodges.

Ho developed into an enthusiastic, aggressivo, energetic, busy secret society man, and when he was introduced to a stranger he would press the stranger's hands, intertwine his fingers and work his palm a quarter of an hour, giving him tho various grips of all tho secret societies of which he was a membor.— Chicago Rocord.

THE MAN DRESSMAKER.

Eow a Gotham Belle Dresses a la ?Iode and Keeps Witliia ller Allowance. [Special Correspondence.]

New York Jan. —Mme. Mclba In displaying her trousseau to a fashion writer, affirmed that the tailor made gown has disappeared from Paris, yet the man dressmaker continues to multiply and grow rich in Gotham. But many of tho richest and most fashionable society women, with the economic shrewdness of their French sisters, have Ion:* since divided their allegiance between tha imported and the home trained tailor.

Redfern, tho famous English man dressmaker, occupies a live story brownstone front in close proximity to Delmonico's. Emblazoned in letters of gold on the high steps that lead to the Fifth avenuo entrance is a legend not without awe to untraveled democracy, "Court Dressmaker to Her Majesty the Queen, R. R. H. Prince of Wales, tho Empress of Russia." Similar legends, together with the English and Russian coat of arms, decorate tho exterior walls of both the Fifth avenue and Broadway sides. A servant in livery opens the door.

On entering the lofty ceiled sa. i, once familiar with tho wit and beauty of Knickerbocker days, a young English woman meets the visitor with the question, '"Has madam an appointment?"

Divinely tall, divinely fair, her waist was wasplike, her bust a Hogarth lino. A thoroughly groomed creature, she was good to look upon, and restful was her low, resonant voice.

She wore a black cloth gown. The front of the skirt and the bodice were embroidered in tan colored braid, while the train of black velvet seemed to begin and end nowhere, so gracefully did it yield to every movement of the superb figure. This room is lined with shelves and cases, with mirrored doors. The shelves reach to the ceiling and are piled with huge rolls of cloth of varied color and texture, products, for the most part, of English looms.

The establishment has a largo force of saleswomen, designers and modistes imported from England. Some liavo long been apprenticed to Redfern, tho elder, while others aro gathered yearly as the theatrical managers mako up an opera chorus

All tho saleswomen have the wasplike waists with which fashion plates have familiarized us. Despite physical culture authorities, however, these waists do not prevent them from handling tho great rolls of cloth with tho agility of "lightweights." "If they aro laced," saj*s Redfern, "could they ^oss such rolls of stuff?"

If not lar "d, is ths mental reservation of tho beholder, whero docs Redfern find Women of this mold? arious wiro forms bedecked in gowns ana jackets were on every side, at table sat two swagger girls examining fashion plates, while a saleswoman in a gown of blue cloth r?ch in sablo tail trimming interposed now and then a professional suggestion. The gown of every employee bespeaks the house. After a dress has been copied two or three times it is donned by the saleswoman best adapted to display it. «:?%In the upper rooms customers arc measured and fitted. A man measures for the pattern, a woman adjusts tho lining, slipping on, if necessary, a scries of pads strung together on rubber ribbons. It suggests an anatomical museum. Pads under the arms, pads in the hollows of shoulders or neck—evry spot nature has defrauded —tho man tailor redeems with cotton.

Dressmakers acknowledge their indebtedness to the ingenuity of the man tailor. The bodice fastened on tho customer, tlio man tailor returns to the sacred precinct and deftly takes in or lets out the appar ently infinitesimal bits so essential to the perfection of the whole.

The chief decoration of these apartments arc signs, ''Payment After First Fitting." "Alas," sighed tin proprietor, "a gown is often worn out before we receive our money."

Rest assured, only women of unquestionable wealth aro indulged to that extent by the English autocrat.

Taste for a Redfern gown is not unlike that for olives. If one has it not instinctively, it must be cultivated. A gown of plainest stuff costs $1)5. while a cloth may be had for $125, the lowest possible figure.

Redfern's private exhibition rooms aro rarely without artists making sketches of his latest creations for fashion journals or the great dailies.

When a woman finds it neceiWP.ry to economize after tho extravagance of a Redfern creation, sho patronizes a tailor in upper Second avenue, the neighborhood of green groceries, Chinese laundries and dirty babies. He may be found in one of a bedizened row of old time residences. The basement is occupied by Hope Lee and a troop -if Celestials. On tho post of the high steps that lead to the house proper swings a signboard. Ono side bears an impressionistic landscape, with a damsel in springy attire outlined against an indigo sky. The other side of the sign partakes of tho winter's chill a tailor made girl is braving. Above, in weather beaten letters, is the sign, "Ladies' Fashionable Tailor." A pretty Jewess opens the door and ushers the customer into the presence of the proprietor. He is a short, chubby man, with an amiable faco. A skullcap conceals a caul. On tho first finger of his left hand ho wears a huge opal ring. His bow is courtly, his manners winning. His natty attire distills the odor of a questionable Havana. The room is stuffy. A long line of gowns in various stages of fashioning hang the length of tho room. Through a half opened door ono may catch a glimpse of somo 50 girls and boys operating as many machines. Tho air is dense with tobacco smoke and redolent of garlic. A portion of tho front room facing the street is cut off by a portiere, within which aro a mirror and a divan.

The customer to bo fitted is tho optical victim of whoever chances to bo within tho inclosuro. Thero seems to bo a roll call of tho establishment when the old gentleman steps behind the portiero, carrying a bodice or coat to bo fitted. Tlio wliolo is very Dickenesquo. Chic damsels, with violin or guitar caso, accompanied by their maids bedrabbled variety actresses or chorus girls fat, greasy Jewesses, well groomed fashionably attired women of breeding and refinement, nursery maids, domimondo, tho tag onds of creation, aro to bo met within tho portiere's narrow precincts.

The tailor had a pleasant word for each as his deft lingers molded tho cloth to the wearer's form. In his world he is no less an autocrat, no less an artist, than Redfern. Ho makes 50 gowns a week. His prices range from $10 to .$13, including findings. Ho raroly fails to give a perfect fit. This man makes tho ordinary gowns of fastidious women who furnish their own materials. The woman of many engagements preserves tho gowns of tho Second nvenuo tailor for ono set of acquaintances, While another moro appreciative feasts on the Englishman's skill. ida Rose McCabe.

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